Public Opinion Towards Devolution and Federalism

Abstract

While political decentralisation is a process that has been undertaken in a wide range of countries, even becoming a main element of political discourse in some cases, there exists a considerable gap in our knowledge regarding citizens’ attitudes towards territorial scales of political life. This panel will assemble papers that further our understanding of multilevel governance by assessing citizens’ attitudes towards different facets of decentralisation. We encourage the submission of comparative papers as well as single case studies.

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